The $140 million fund is expected to help 25 mid-sized cities figure out how to protect the urban poor from flooding and other disasters related to climate change, according to the Asian Development Bank.

There are 40 cities in India with populations of between one million and five million people. They can learn from India’s megacities how – and how not – to confront challenges of urban growth, Asit K. Biswas writes inUBM Future Cities.